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ADR International
02-24-2011, 11:42 AM
Hi I hope you all well?
I have been building backlinks for some time now and wanted to know how many I have.
I have checked backlink watch and back link bliss but both come back with different results, also I seemt to have hardly any on Google (27 ) but over 700 in Yahoo.
I don't know if anyone uses a reliable (free) tool?
Any suggestion welcome.
thanks
MrGamm
02-25-2011, 06:02 AM
The link: prefix operator works in Google, Blekko and Yahoo's site explorer, it seems to be absent from Bing.
Using one of the links in your signature...
http://blekko.com/ws/link:adr-international.com
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=adr-international.com&bwm=i&bwmf=u&bwms=p&fr=moz35&fr2=seo-rd-se
http://www.google.ca/search?q=link%3Aadr-international.com
Have you tried Blekko? They have built in SEO links in their results and they show the location of the links as well. Maybe you are indexed with them.
http://blekko.com/ws/http:%2F%2Fadr-international.com%2F+/seo
I think you can also log into the Yahoo site explorer for more detailed information and Google has webmaster tools that you can log into as well.
Tiggerito
02-25-2011, 10:53 PM
You can also get backlinks if you register with Google Webmaster Tools.
Clint1
02-26-2011, 08:33 AM
The link: prefix operator works in Google, Blekko and Yahoo's site explorer, it seems to be absent from Bing.
:confused: G has never shown all IBL's, not even a couple of % of them. While the command may "work", it only shows a few.
Y has deleted the majority of IBL's pointing to sites using the command with them. (There's a thread somewhere here about that).
The only way to see it in MSN is to get a WMT account with them, but who knows how accurate it really is.
Have you tried Blekko? They have built in SEO links in their results and they show the location of the links as well. Maybe you are indexed with them.
http://blekko.com/ws/http:%2F%2Fadr-international.com%2F+/seo
While it has the potential to be nice, it's information is as inaccurate as that from G. The #'s it gives are waaaaaaay too low.
I think you can also log into the Yahoo site explorer for more detailed information and Google has webmaster tools that you can log into as well.
Several months back G WMT starting showing 10's of thousands of IBL's for sites that they previously only showed a few-a few hundred. Like the MSN WMT, no one knows how accurate that really is. But it appears to at least be the "most" accurate of the 3.
dgswilson
02-26-2011, 11:51 AM
If you have Awstats you can check - Links from an external page (other web sites except search engines) - I don't know where or how to find an accurate back link report (gave up looking) but I find a lot of interesting results when I scroll through this section of Awstats.
I do check - Links to your site - in WMT's. Just to look at what Google has found and reported.
Clint1
02-27-2011, 10:43 AM
If you have Awstats you can check - Links from an external page (other web sites except search engines) - I don't know where or how to find an accurate back link report (gave up looking) but I find a lot of interesting results when I scroll through this section of Awstats.
I do check - Links to your site - in WMT's. Just to look at what Google has found and reported.
Do mean if you have cPanel hosting the Awstats there? If so, where exactly? If you mean "Links from an external page (other web sites except search engines)", that too appears to be rather inaccurate because it only shows 800 but G WMT states nearly 30,000 for me.
deepsand
02-27-2011, 01:13 PM
At its best, any given link reporting tool is no better than the completeness and accuracy of the data that it has captured.
And, just as no search engine has complete and timely data for the totality of the web, so too the case for link checkers.
Expecting to find a true count of IBLs is unrealistic.
MrPolarZero
02-27-2011, 11:30 PM
try to use SEOCentro backlinks checker tool :)
MrGamm
02-27-2011, 11:39 PM
Do mean if you have cPanel hosting the Awstats there? If so, where exactly? If you mean "Links from an external page (other web sites except search engines)", that too appears to be rather inaccurate because it only shows 800 but G WMT states nearly 30,000 for me.
Every time you click on a link, the location of the link is stored in the browser, and then sent to the website which the link points to, so in the referral logs, there is a list of links which have referred traffic to the website. (some spammers spam this area of a website, while other browsers run stealth, or strip the referral info out)
Awstats is a server log analysis program. So it takes the standard website logs, and extracts the referral info out.
It is not a full record of every single link in existence, but it can give a deeper meaning to the value of a link to you as a website owner.
As for Search Engine ranking value, there is probably little correlation (if even an ounce) between traffic received from external links, and the position a page gets in the search engine results based on popularity scores using links as a metric.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet... but just doing a surface search in Google might reveal broken links or possibly more links which have not been found in any of the mentioned utilities so far...
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22http://www.mydomain.com%22
Another thing to consider is the rel=nofollow attribute which is found in many website commenting systems, it is an piece of code used inside a link which signals to a search engine that it carries no authority from the perspective of the website owners. (to keep spam links from carrying ranking weight)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow
Not sure if they are excluded from some link checker utilities or not.
deepsand
02-28-2011, 12:01 AM
try to use SEOCentro backlinks checker tool :)
To no surprise, tests show this tool fails to report IBLs indexed by Google.
deepsand
02-28-2011, 01:59 PM
Type URL of your website to get complete detailed
information about quality and quantity of backlinks pointing to your website.
It will show you "anchor" text, pagerank, total outbound links on that page, and nofollow flag for each of your inbound link available.
What is the measure of the "quality" of a link?
socialmediamarketingwizar
03-08-2011, 08:54 AM
Check through following:
backlinkwatch(dot)com
analyzebacklinks(dot)com
Clint1
03-08-2011, 09:22 AM
Check through following:
backlinkwatch(dot)com
analyzebacklinks(dot)com
The frickin' pop-ups are infuriating at the first one, plus I believe it's purposely painfully slow to get visitors to click all the ads. Both only give a small portion of IBL's. I canceled the first one because I wasn't going to wait any longer, but it showed the ones remaining in queue.
Clint1
03-08-2011, 09:24 AM
What is the measure of the "quality" of a link?
Ask G, they know. :rolleyes: :lol:
deepsand
03-08-2011, 07:27 PM
The frickin' pop-ups are infuriating at the first one, plus I believe it's purposely painfully slow to get visitors to click all the ads. Both only give a small portion of IBL's. I canceled the first one because I wasn't going to wait any longer, but it showed the ones remaining in queue.
Yep; BLW is a royal PITA.
Apparently it's loyal followers either have nothing else to do with their time or are paid shills. :lol:
Intesols
03-08-2011, 10:52 PM
Use SEO Spyglass version. It is really awesome tool to check Backlinks.
deepsand
03-08-2011, 11:13 PM
Use SEO Spyglass version. It is really awesome tool to check Backlinks.
According to their Compare SEO SpyGlass editions (http://www.link-assistant.com/seo-spyglass/comparison.html) page, the free version checks Yahoo only.
What's so "awesome" about that? :confused:
robertflorish
03-21-2011, 05:23 AM
Backlinkwatch is the best tool to check backlinks.
Clint1
03-21-2011, 05:36 AM
Backlinkwatch is the best tool to check backlinks.
??:confused:?? Uhhhh, nope. Post #13 and 15. ^^
dgswilson
03-21-2011, 07:47 AM
What I see, at times, is adsense ads taking a long time to load. If the ads are at the top of the page that can effect page load speed. Last night I was experimenting with absolute positioning a div for ads. I could place the call below the content (html source) on the page so it would be got last. Of course this is easy to do but (absolute) is out of page flow so sits on top of text. What I did is clear a place for the div first. For instance, if you wanted an ad at the top right of page content/text where a floated div would ordinarily go, put that text (paragraph or so) in a div with a width of 60% where the rest of the content is 90%. Then just x/y in % and the absolute div has it's own free space to occupy.
I can only check this in my OS (linux), browsers (chrome/Firefox), screen resolution (1080 or so) but it looks good and works well in those. When narrowing the page with the mouse (grab and drag) the text flows under the absolute element but as far as I know there is no way around that. I did see a big difference in load speed than when using floated inline div's. If you want to see the page it's addictioninthe21stcentury-com I'd be interested in knowing how it works with what ever you're using.
What I was originally thinking was I'd float an empty div with a fixed height and width to a location and then load the absolute div inside it (or on it in this case), but I haven't got that to work yet. I don't know what effect speed has initially on Google but I am sure it has an effect on users, thus traffic, thus Google .... My idea has been, less is better, as mentioned by others. I combined the script that came with the swf player - I used something I think was called scriptilizer (?). I also try to get every unnecessary letter out of css and write it so it works in as many browsers as possible. If I want to have offsite calls like affiliate ads I'll put the associated images for the ads on my server (have gzip enabled).
I like to go to w3c's validator, linkchecker and css validator to find problems - keep browsers from having to interpret code.
Clint1
03-21-2011, 08:03 AM
:confused: Did you reply to the wrong thread?
dgswilson
03-21-2011, 08:45 AM
Yeah - I thought I was on the page speed thread. I'll try and move it. I probably won't be able to delete it, maybe a moderator will - sorry.
Clint1
03-21-2011, 10:34 AM
Yeah - I thought I was on the page speed thread. I'll try and move it. I probably won't be able to delete it, maybe a moderator will - sorry.
:lol: I thought so. ;) No problem on my end, I just thought I would point it out. ;)
deepsand
03-21-2011, 02:30 PM
Yeah - I thought I was on the page speed thread. I'll try and move it. I probably won't be able to delete it, maybe a moderator will - sorry.
Click on the REPORT button on the misplaced post, and ask that it and related subsequent posts be deleted. An Admin. or Mod. will take care of it.
aditd
05-02-2011, 11:38 AM
I use seoquake ( a free extension for Mozilla and Ie ) to see backlinks.
True Yahoo will show you more backlinks than Google. That will be the correct number of backlinks you have. Also 27 with Google it is good. Google sees a lot of backlinks but does not show them.
dgswilson
05-02-2011, 02:10 PM
Chrome has addon too, I think it's called "SiteRank". Handy for getting quickly to Yahoo, Bing or Google Links. Even has Baidu on it
cute-sherry
05-03-2011, 02:32 AM
Regarding checking back links, I would like to recommend you Yahoo site explore only. Where you post 700 links? you check these links status manually.
deepsand
05-03-2011, 02:41 AM
Regarding checking back links, I would like to recommend you Yahoo site explore only.
Since there is no omniscient store of data, relying on one alone will ensure that you miss much.
Where you post 700 links? you check these links status manually.
Huh? Clarification needed.
Clint1
05-03-2011, 03:04 AM
Since there is no omniscient store of data, relying on one alone will ensure that you miss much.
Huh? Clarification needed.
What happened to that post? "Regarding checking back links, I would like to recommend you Yahoo site explore only." Anyway, as stated in this thread there is no current method for finding all IBL's, and I believe it was this thread(?) where I mentioned that Y no longer shows all IBL's. They've "pulled a google" and show only a small portion of what they once showed. Apparently all SE's believe it's a secret and site owners no longer have a right to know who links to them. :confused: :twisted:
deepsand
05-03-2011, 03:11 AM
What happened to that post? "Regarding checking back links, I would like to recommend you Yahoo site explore only."
It's on the previous page.
As Tripe/Drivel/Fluff posts get purged, stuff shifts backwards, sometimes in big chunks.
deepsand
05-09-2011, 05:19 PM
As per my view the best tool for checking your websites back links is Google Webmaster Tool. Its really very reliable tool to check back links.
Had you read the thread, or first researched the subject, you would know that this statement is not only repeated, but fallacious.
deepsand
05-12-2011, 05:49 AM
I always check backlinks from iwebtool.com ...
Where one typically gets the message "Unable to retrieve backlinks at this time, please try again later."
...or backlinkwatch.com
or, waits endlessly for it to never complete, while spitting out partial erroneous results with truncated URLs.
Why do people keep recommending the same crappy "tools?"
Clint1
05-12-2011, 06:29 AM
I always check backlinks from iwebtool.com or backlinkwatch.com
Mentioned several times in this thread, reference way back in post #13.
Clint1
05-12-2011, 06:33 AM
Why do people keep recommending the same crappy "tools?"
Apparently post count. I had remained subscribed to this thread hoping someone would come up with something that works. But there's apparently no point to that because most still insist on repeating the same thing over and over again. :confused: :evil:
deepsand
05-12-2011, 07:15 PM
The drastic uptick in new members posting tripe over that past several weeks is happening over at V&N as well.
In fact, some of them are the same sock puppets.
In fact, some of them are the same sock puppets.
They travel in packs. Or on the street, it's called drawers.
deepsand
05-13-2011, 12:59 AM
Upper or lower drawer?
Clint1
05-13-2011, 04:46 AM
They travel in packs. Or on the street, it's called drawers.
ROTFLMAO. :lol:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2073/1764266506_3397548ab0.jpg
deepsand
05-13-2011, 05:38 AM
Can I have one of those to take home? I promise to take very bad care of it.
Clint1
05-13-2011, 06:32 AM
Can I have one of those to take home? I promise to take very bad care of it.
Looks like someone beat you to it.
Upper or lower drawer?
IMO - it doesn't matter. It's rumoured they have a "flip-down" facing which is "spring-loaded" for speedy exits and retreats. ;) Clint, how did you get that pic? It's on the same level as Loch Ness and Big Foot, but with amazing clarity. Nice!
I promise to take very bad care of it.
One has escaped!! :shock:
Clint1
05-13-2011, 11:07 AM
I promise to take very bad care of it.
:confused: Is there a point to that post? Why did you repeat post #41. :confused: Tripe amok.
:confused: Is there a point to that post? Why did you repeat post #41. :confused: Tripe amok.
I was actually going to make a similar comment, but the sock puppets miss the message most times. Sadly, tripe - yes.
deepsand
05-13-2011, 09:45 PM
One has escaped!! :shock:
Do not panic; this is only a test.
Repeat, this is only a test.